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1
What were created as places for people to drink alcoholic beverages during Prohibition?
carpetbaggers
speakeasies
tree houses
bootleggers
2
How many Americans were without jobs as a result of the Great Depression?
1/2
1/4
3/4
1/3
3
Which of the following would
NOT
have directly benefited from the Social Security Act?
families of deceased workers
retired workers
disabled workers
business owners
4
Who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s?
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Jacob Lawrence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
5
This was a period of outstanding African American achievement in the arts and literature.
Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration
Prohibition
Great Depression
6
Which of these are communication changes of the early 20th century?
computer/movies
television/radio
telephone/television
radio/movies
7
"Rest at pale evening...A tall, slim tree...Night coming tenderly...Black like me."
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
Jacob Lawrence
Bessie Smith
8
Who is credited with inventing the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Samuel Morse
Eli Whitney
9
What was a result of improved transportation brought by the affordable automobile?
urban movement
suburban movement
Prohibition
rural movement
10
Whose incomes fell to extremely low levels as a result of the Great Depression?
politicians
steel workers
farmers
teachers
11
"I'm so disgusted, heartbroken, too. I've got those down hearted blues"
Diana Ross
Beyonce
Bessie Smith
Ella Fitzgerald
12
Which Constitutional amendment repealed Prohibition?
22nd
14th
21st
18th
13
What failed to prevent the collapse of the banking system at the start of the Great Depression?
Stock Market
New Deal
Federal Reserve
Social Security
14
George Gershwin and _______ _________ were composers of uniquely American music.
Louis Armstrong
Aaron Copland
Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
15
Which of these occurred
last
in the era of the Great Depression?
stock market crash
New Deal
high tariffs
1/4 unemployment
16
Georgia O'Keeffe was known for ----
blues music
writing novels
paintings
poetry
17
The picture below is credited to the -----
Everly Brothers
Henry Ford
Wright Brothers
Central Powers
18
Where did African Americans face discrimination during the time of
The Great Migration
?
all of the above
Midwest
South
North
19
One of the causes of the Great Depression, this discouraged international trade.
inflation
high tariffs
low income
stocks
20
The ______ _______ was the movement of African Americans to northern and mid-western cities.
Harlem Renaissance
Great Journey
Great Migration
Great Depression
21
Which of these occurred
first
in the era of the Great Depression?
high tariffs
1/4 unemployment
Federal Reserve does not prevent banks from closing
stock market crash
22
FDR became president the same year that Prohibition ended. What year did this happen?
1933
1941
1929
1938
23
Due to the rise in crime, Prohibition was a complete ________ for the United States government.
popular era
failure
tax exemption
success
24
In his book
The Grapes of Wrath
,
he wrote about the hardships of poor migrant workers.
Jacob Lawrence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
J.D. Salinger
John Steinbeck
25
Which captain of industry is associated with what is happening in the picture below?
Bill Gates
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
26
People overspeculated on these with borrowed money they couldn't repay when the market crashed.
bonds
stocks
markets
mutual funds
27
Which state is the center of the automobile industry in the United States?
Michigan
Illinois
Wisconsin
Detroit
28
The picture below is an example of which feature of the New Deal?
rights for labor
farm assistance
Social Security
environmental improvement
29
__________ smuggled illegal alcohol and promoted organized crime during Prohibition.
ninjas
bootleggers
temperance
speakeasies
30
In the 1920s Americans began accumulating debt from purchasing consumer goods on _______ _____.
the stock market
installment plans
federal reserve
credit cards
31
What happened to the popularity of the artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance?
spread to all society
declined over time
grew after WWII
became neutral
32
Franklin Roosevelt's plan to end the Great Depression was called the ----
Big Stick Diplomacy
Fair Deal
Great Society
New Deal
33
Jacob Lawrence painted scenes of the -----
World War I
Great Migration
Southwest
Great Depression
34
Which were features of the New Deal?
farm help/higher salaries
work programs/stocks
Social Security/work programs
segregation/labor rights
35
Which of the following people was a
Jazz
composer of the Harlem Renaissance?
Ellington
Hughes
Copland
Smith
36
Which one of these is an example of a labor-saving product brought by electrification?
steel plow
radio
automobile
washing machine